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EXPRESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES IN CROATIAN AND POLISH – DATIVE ARGUMENT STRUCTURES
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2015 The paper analyses dative constructions that express psychological states in Polish and Croatian. The research is conducted within the framework of comparative and cognitive linguistics, using, among others, the prototype theory.
Sybilla Daković
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The phonological basis of Latin case patterns
Topics in Linguistics, 2014 This study focuses on accounting for allomorphy in Latin case/number inflection. It attributes essentially all of it to the influence of adjacent features of standard segmental phonology on morphemes expressing case assignment.
Emonds Joseph Embley
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Perspectives from comparisons of the Hebrew l-suffix with the Shona h-suffix features
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The ethical dative or dativus ethicus is a feature used with certain verbs in Biblical Hebrew, which, however, has continued to pose difficulties to grammarians as to its syntactic and semantic references.
Godwin Mushayabasa
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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Over talen en tekens: bijdragen van jonge Gentse linguïsten [PDF]
, 2015 This volume in the annual series of the BGG presents contributions of four young linguists: Jesse Berwouts (on the construction "eat yourself thin"); Sara Delva (on "sollte", "moest" and "mocht" in conditional clauses); Dario Rens (on the transition from
Buysschaert, Joost
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Parts, Axial Parts, and Next Parts in Kannada
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Nouns meaning ‘place, region’ and ‘part’ are compounded in Kannada with a `bleached’ noun (a putative postposition) to form AxPart and Part readings. As in other languages, the AxPart or ‘region’ reading does not pluralize, does not permit adjectival ...
R. Amritavalli
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